That's a very good point Adrian, thank you. Having used the 'old' Cheshire Collection extensively in the past, I did wonder why the PR's no longer appear when just Cheshire is entered - I'd put it down to the current muddle with FMP. Your explanation should clear up a lot of niggles for many of us and is much appreciated. Regards Lesley Baxendale Colwyn Bay On 15/05/2014 00:22, Adrian Bruce wrote: > <<snipped>> > you need to know which you want for any particular record set. > <<snipped>> > > In fact, understanding the distinction between Cheshire and the Diocese of > Chester is important. There is at least one Cheshire parish that does not > appear in FMP because it is in the Diocese of Manchester (and presumably > therefore on Ancestry!), while there are plenty of entries in the Act Books > for probate and marriage licences in Lancashire precisely because the > Diocese of Chester included Lancashire at the time of the compilation of the > Act Books. Without understanding the difference (and the coverage of the old > Diocese at various times) you might be looking in entirely the wrong place. > > It may be an unfashionable viewpoint but I do believe that if we are going > to start specifying individual datasets, then we seriously ought to > understand what the datasets actually are, starting with their name. > > I suspect the problem has partly arisen because the "Cheshire Collection" > page used to link to all the PRs and BTs as well as the non-conformist, > workhouse, etc. Now, as far as I recall, the PRs and BTs are no longer > linked into the "Cheshire Collection" - this may be because the Collection > page now links into the "proper" dataset names rather than mythical > intermediates such as "Cheshire PRs"(???), which never actually existed as a > dataset. This means the list of "proper" dataset names is now approaching 3 > times as long as it was so I suspect they snipped the PRs and BTs out. > > Adrian B > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > . >